I was thinking how unlucky do you have to be? First to get stabbed and then to be injured by means unspecified? :( ;)
Andrew Mcauley ● 3409d9 Comments
Not sure what your point is
Helena Cavanagh ● 3409d
It is the strange way Police describe things sometimes. A crash is described as a Police incident on the radio for example
Peter Chadburn ● 3409d
Yes indeed one might think the unfortunate chap had been injured during the time he was stabbed..
Keith Iddon ● 3409d
That's what I'd presumed ;)
Andrew Mcauley ● 3409d
Oh I see what you are driving at. But if you just said 'Man Stabbed in Ealing' it would beg the question was he injured or killed.
"during" perhaps? Or even "due to".
Maybe "wounded" rather than "injured"? As in "Man wounded by knife attack"
Philip Coe ● 3409d
'Man Injured During Stabbing' could give rise to the same objections as the original headlinesPhilip's suggestion is better although 'Man Wounded in Knife Attack' does make the headline less informative as you could be wounded by a knife but not stabbed i.e. suffer from a slash wound.Perhaps we are all a bit guilty of trivialising what for somebody was a terrible thing to happen?
Helena Cavanagh ● 3402d
Man Injured BY Stabbing in Ealing
Fred Hunt ● 3402d